TH libraries and linking.

Greetings, I've recently been playing around with using TH to generate FFI bindings. The resulting code is in general very concise, more maintainable and far less error-prone than the hand-written counterpart. But increased code bloat ascends out of all this happiness. The binding is required to link with both template-haskell and the library which generates the FFI code, so any binary using the generated binding would get a few hundred kilobytes added which strictly aren't necessary (am I wrong here?). This can be unacceptable for small bindings. One could perhaps get around this cheap by changing the TH pretty printer to output valid Haskell instead of just pretty Haskell (I'm specifically talking about a misplaced 'where' in instance declarations). Then one could use the TH library just like a normal preprocessor. I'm no expert so there's probably difficulties which I can't see. -- Friendly, Lemmih
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